Show Sponsors: Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. This episode, as part of my effort to design my summer and come up with holiday projects, I am putting together a reading list. I have some really amazing reads coming up but as they are on the more serious side I'm also looking for some fun fiction recommendations, if you have any! I am also building a fantasy sweater knitting queue...if I start now I might have one finished by the end of the year! Show Links: Court Number One: The Old Bailey Court Cases That Defined Modern Britain by Thomas Grant Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe Craeft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts by Alexander Langlands Hay by Clare Mountain Like a Cloud by Jojo Locatelli  Confetti by Veera Välimäki Clio by Elizabeth Doherty Zweig Pullover by Caitlin Hunter Magnolia Pullover by Camilla Vad Laine Magazine Cushendale Woollen Mill La Bien Aimée Elton Cardigan by Joji Locatelli Winterfell Cardigan by Katrin Schneider Episode transcript: Welcome to the Curious Handmade podcast. You're listening to episode 268. This podcast is all about crafting a life of happiness and creativity. I'm your host, Helen, and you can find me on Ravelry as Hell's Bells and on social media as Curious Handmade. You can also find full show notes and transcript on my website at curioushandmade.com.  Hello and welcome to the show. I hope you've had a fantastic week. Thank you for everybody who commented and sent me messages about your holiday projects. I loved hearing about those. I'm still working on mine actually. I haven't had much time this week to think about it in too much detail. But today I thought I would share with you a couple of books that I'm hoping to read over the summer holidays that I have in my pile beside my bed at the moment. Also do an update on my thinking about my knitting capsule wardrobe pattern ideas. Just before I get into all of that, I wanted to remind you that we just have a couple of days left for my birthday sale. It's my birthday today in fact, so I have been running a sale for the last week or so to celebrate, and it is a buy one, get one free sale. So all you have to do to make the most of that is to put two or more of my patterns from my Ravelry store into a basket and use the code, happybirthday, oh, one word. So I just wanted to give you a little reminder about that, that runs through to Sunday 30th of June before that offer ends. It's also to celebrate the release of the individual patterns from last year's show society collection. So I have just had that available as a collection up until now. And now each of the patterns from the Shawl Society Season 3 from last year are now available as single patterns. So lots of people have been waiting for that, sorry it's taken me so long. I meant to do it earlier in the year,

  Show Sponsors: Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. Today on the podcast I'm thinking about what it might mean to design our summer (even with an international move in the middle!) and announcing a little birthday sale on my patterns! The TSS 3 shawls are now available as single patterns. And there's a brand new TSS 4 shawl to celebrate! Show Links: The Shawl Society Season 3 Maytham Shawl Ivy Over The Door Shawl Wick Shawl Planting Seeds Shawl Learning to Cry Shawl The Whole World is a Garden Shawl The Shawl Society Season 4 Sea Gleam Shawl  Floating Shawl Sky Map Wrap The Happier Podcast Design Your Summer Happier Podcast Episode from 2016 Design Your Summer Happier Podcast Episode from 2017 Design Your Summer Happier Podcast Episode from 2018 Design Your Summer Happier Podcast Episode 2019 Podcast Transcript Welcome to the Curious Handmade podcast. You're listening to episode 267. This podcast is all about crafting a life of happiness and creativity. I'm your host, Helen, and you can find me on Ravelry as Hells Bells and on social media as Curious Handmade. You can also find full show notes and transcript on my website at curioushandmade.com. Welcome to the show. I hope you have lots of weekend things planned and a little bit of knitting hopefully. We are planning to go to the school fair this weekend, and we have some birthday parties for kids to attend and, hopefully, a bit of knitting for me too, so I'm looking forward to the weekend. And in this episode, we are chatting about the release of the second Shawl Society shawl, a little bit of a happiness project update, and some ideas for some activities. Before I get into all of that, I wanted to announce a birthday sale. It's my birthday next week, and so I thought I would have a pattern sale in my Ravelry store. We are also celebrating the release of the Shawl Society season three patterns as single patterns. We are going to have a buy one, get one free offer starting today and running through until Sunday, the 30th of June, and so it will be just over a week, this week and next weekend. All you have to do is put two or more patterns from my Ravelry store into your basket and use the code happybirthday, all one word, and you will get the second least expensive pattern for free. If you've been waiting for one of the Shawl Society patterns, a particular pattern from last year's season, then now is the time to snap that up. Speaking of the Shawl Society, season four is happening at the moment, and the second shawl has just been released yesterday. I am super excited to introduce you to Floating shawl. We've had a really magical start to season four, including the giveaway where people posted about their happy places, and it was so inspiring. I think that people who are knitting away on the Sea Gleam shawl at the moment or have knitted that one are enjoying the season so fa...

  Show Sponsors: Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. I'm back from a truly magical week at Squam, and this week on the podcast I have tales of the workshops I experienced, the projects I worked on, and details of some of the treasures I brought home. This week also brings us a new pattern from The Handmade Sock Society, so I have the Cliff Walk Socks to introduce, as well as a bit of help for Society Members who may be confused about how to get onto the secret mailing list. Show Links: Abigail Haplin on Instagram Purplebean Bindery   Hollie Chastain on Instagram If You Can Cut You Can Collage book by Hollie Chastain Linen and Spoon Amy T Won Wing and a Prayer Farm Clio Pullover by Elizabeth Doherty Our third pattern of The Handmade Sock Society Season 2 was released this week! The Cliff Walk Socks The Yarn Tart at Suffolk Socks House of A La Mode House of A La Mode at A Yarn Story Join the Handmade Sock Society Season 2 Episode Transcript:Welcome to the Curious Handmade podcast. You're listening to Episode 266. This podcast is all about crafting a life of happiness and creativity. I'm your host, Helen, and you can find me on Ravelry as Hell's Bells, and on social media as Curious Handmade. You can also find full show notes on my website at curioushandmade.com Hello, and I hope you're well. Welcome to the show. I hope you've been having a good week, and I will catch you up on my week and also last week when I was at Squam. I got back to London Monday morning this week, and have basically been catching up for most of the week, I think. It's been a little bit of a blur, slightly jet lagged, and just sort of catching up on lots of admin and doing a little bit of planning because now the countdown is on before we move countries and head off down under to Australia. So yes, I'm looking at a matter of weeks now and thinking I need to use my time wisely. So spreadsheets have been created and lots of lists are being made. I'm trying to not spend too much time obsessing about all the details, and just also try and crack on with some of the actual work. But I have to admit that it's been a little bit slow this week. I have been enjoying the inspiration that I drew on at Squam, and it was a really lovely week. I flew over last Tuesday just in time for the start. Sometimes I go a little bit earlier and spend some time in New York with my friends, but time was at a bit of a premium this time. So I just went over just before it started, and it started off not very auspiciously because the plane that I boarded, we sat there for nearly three hours and they decided that they couldn't fix the fault in the plane, so we all had to hop off, and shortly after getting off the plane,

  Show Sponsors: Alongside an eclectic yarn range, which includes Hazel Knits, Icelandic Lopi & CoopKnits, we stock a carefully chosen selection of needles and notions. We’ve also recently launched ‘hand dyed by meadowyarn’, our very own in-house, hand-dyed yarn range. Working in our tiny dye studio, nestled in the Suffolk countryside, we are able to indulge our love of colour, producing complex tonal, kettle-dyed shades across a range of weights and bases. With regular updates our collections evolve and grow, inspired by the landscape and people around us. Find all your favourite luxury yarns and discover plenty more at A Yarn Story, Bath’s premier yarn store based in Walcot Street, Bath, UK. From gorgeous skeins by The Fibre Co and Walcot Yarns to a fine selection from Shibui Knits, La Bien Aimée, House of a la Mode, and Julie Asselin, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. With friendly and knowledgeable staff to help you browse, there is plenty for the discerning knitter to enjoy. Visit the store at Walcot Street, Bath or shop online at www.ayarnstory.co.uk. Today I have a chatty little catch-up episode, which I recorded just before heading off to the Squam Art Workshops. As ever, there's the question of travel knitting. It's also the time of year where I like to take stock of my goals and plans so far, as we head into the second half of 2019. With the big move to Australia just around the corner, there's a lot to plan for! Show Links: Squam Clio Pullover by Elizabeth Doherty Pebbles and Pathways Socks Hay Pullover by Clare Mountain Like a Cloud by Joji Locatelli Seren Yarns The Yarn Tart at Suffolk Socks House of A La Mode House of A La Mode at A Yarn Story Join the Handmade Sock Society Season 2 The Minimal Mom The Mount Juliet Shawl ------------------------------------------------------------ Show Transcript: Welcome to the Curious Handmade podcast. You're listening to episode 265. this podcast is all about crafting a life of happiness and creativity. I'm your host Helen and you can find me on Ravelry as HellsBells and on social media as Curious Handmade. You can also find the full show notes and transcript on my website at curioushandemade.com. Hello and welcome to the show and welcome to June. How on earth did that happen? Oh my goodness. Nearly halfway through the year and I guess it's a really good time for thinking about planning for the second half of the year. I've been thinking about planning all year because I have such a big deadline hanging over me, which is moving to Australia in August. So I've been very, very conscious of deadlines all year. But I always think that around June, just before halfway through the year, is a really good time to reassess goals and look at what you've achieved for the year so far and what you might like to achieve for the second half of the year. I am even more conscious of time frames because as I sat down to record this, I've just been doing a little bit of catching up on my planning, reorganizing myself a little bit. And realized that it's 10 weeks until we move, until we leave. 10 weeks today in fact. So yeah, there's a handful of weeks that the kids still have at school or just over a handful, but under two handfuls, and then we'll have a few weeks in which we will be going to a wedding and having movers come in and pack everything up. So even though it's 10 weeks, it's not really, because I'm off to Squam this week as well. So I am really looking forward to visiting Squam Lake in New Hampshire for the Squam Arts Workshops. And as you will probably gather, if you follow me on Instagram, I am away as this is being released. So I'm prerecording it just a few days in advance this time. But by the time the episode comes out I'll be over in the US. So just now I am in the process of packing for that trip and I am not working this trip. Sometimes I have a stall at the art fair that they ...